Principal Investigator:

Robert M. Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs, University of PIttsburgh. Dr. Hayden specializes in law and politics, and has done extensive research in the Balkans, India, and among the Seneca Iroquois of New York State. rhayden@pitt.edu, http://www.pitt.edu/~rhayden

Senior Co-Investigators:

Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

Professor of Art History at California State University in Los Angeles.  He is an expert on pre-Columbian civilizations, the colonial history of Mexico and Mexican Muralism.  Dr. Aguilar-Moreno has published on a wide range of subjects, including Mesoamerican art and history, colonial art and history of Mexico, funerary art, and the pre-Columbian ballgame; maguila2@calstatela.edu

Aykan Erdemir, Member of Turkish Parliament for Bursa; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Technical University

Milica Bakić-Hayden, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh.  Her geographic areas of study include south-eastern Europe (the Balkans)  

and South Asia (India). Teaching and research include Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Religion in India, Christian – Muslim relations, and comparative mysticism and sainthood; milicabh@pitt.edu

Enrique Lopez-Hurtado, Investigador, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/ Research Associate, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. LEL7@pitt.edu

Devika Rangachari, Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept of History, University of Delhi. devikarangachari@yahoo.com

Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Director, Science and Technology Museum, Middle East Technical University. tugbatanyeri@gmail.com

Timothy Walker

Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Affiliated Researcher of the Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.  Teaching fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion.  Additional research topics focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, and include the European adoption of colonial indigenous medicines and slave trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.    twalker@umassd.edu

Other Senior Associated Scholars:

Simeon Evstatiev, Sofia University St. Klement Ohridski

Nayanjot Lahiri, Delhi University

Graduate Student Researchers:

Hande Sozer, University of Pittsburgh

Rabia Harmansah, University of Pittsburgh

Pre-School Researchers:

Papatya Erdemir

Duru Erdemir